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The first Ricardian song for Christmas ….?

The artwork of the Gold Angel painted by Graham Moores for The Legendary Ten Seconds

The setting of the song: It was the year 1477, at the season of Christmas, that Richard, most royal of princes, bent his knee unto King Edward’s unworthy Woodville queen at Westminster. Such festive celebrations were all around as Richard of Gloucester made obeisance to a woman he would one day learn was not the queen at all. The queen feared he would discover that Edward, the brother he served so constantly, had committed bigamy. But that unveiling of the truth was in the future, and Richard knelt.

GOLD ANGELS

The lord of misrule was dancing,
The Duke he did conceal
In his pockets he had gold angels,
For gifts he would later reveal.

It was Christmas day in London town,
Snow covered the filth in the street.
There was ice on the banks of the River Thames
The Duke his barge he did seek.